Today is a sad day. With great sadness and regret, I am informing the Time Warp family that long time employee, customer and friend Kris Sorant passed way unexpectedly this past Sunday, February 17th.
Kris was known here as “Back Issue Kris”, a name given him by “Matt”, a long time customer.
Kris worked so hard on our back issues, and was a fixture here for decades. He always strived to put the very best copies in our massive back issue bins.
While always in bad health it seemed, and despite all that he worked very hard and often spent long hours working after the store closed when everyone else went home for the night.
Whenever the rest of us were working Denver Comic Con, he ran the whole store all by himself for three days, a feat that always blew my mind.
He was also a very intelligent fellow, and could expound on any and all subjects. World class knowledge.
His favorite comic book characters were Spider-Man and the X-Men and he had a very comprehensive collection of those. His favorite musician was Buckethead!
If you’ve been shopping here at all in the last couple of decades, you’ve run in to him, I’m sure. If any of you have pictures to share, I would appreciate it. My phone wiped anything older than last year, and I can’t find one.
He will be greatly missed by all of us here at the store, and many former employees who worked with him.
He was only 46 years old. I don’t have any details yet. As I find out more details, I will post them here, or on our website Time-warp.com.
Memorial service details are forthcoming.
Whenever an employee, customer and friend passes away, it leaves a whole in my heart that never heals. Kris was all of these, and the world is a sadder place without him in it .
RIP, brother. We loved you!
Thank you A.J, for your kind words regarding Kris. He has been of mine since we were nine years old. All the best, James
Thank you all for being there at his memorial. BTW….this is NOT a glare on his face, it’s Kris being his goofy self. Thank you for giving him a place to be himself, surrounded by what he loved.